Of Note Archives 2016

2016 Ecumenical Advocacy Days
Read article on this year's EAD by Jeanette McDermott on the Sisters of the Good Shepherd of Mid-North America website.

Success in pictures! Thank you for coming from across the U.S.
for another successful Ecumenical Advocacy Days Conference.

High Schoolers Learn to Advocate

What would our future be if no one cares and no one knows how to engender change? 

This past summer, NAC led a group of high school girls on visits to Capitol Hill to call for an end to human trafficking and forced labor.  They came from different Sacred Heart high schools around the country to learn about policies and advocacy in our nation’s capital.

Congressional Presser

Larry Couch speaks at a Congressional press conference against a Muslim ban in immigration and for Freedom of Religion Act.
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A Spiritual Reflection &  Voting Guide for 2016

National Advocacy Center serves as part of a coalition of national Catholic organizations.
Together, we developed this voting guide, "A Revolution of Tenderness," as a means to help Catholics engage in the political process through the lens of our faith.
A Revolution of Tenderness Voting Guide in the form of a brochure.

Press Releases and Statements

Pushing for Immigration & Ending Family Detention

​Larry traveled to Nogales AZ to participate in a gathering organized by the School of the Americas Watch.  He marched and demonstrated in support of immigration reform, an end to family detention, and to provide refuge for those fleeing the violence in their home countries. In addition, he demonstrated in front of a detention center to show NAC's solidarity with those immigrants who have been imprisoned.